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Reluctant Genius by Charlotte Gray (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins Canada, The Limited

ISBN-100006394760

ISBN-139780006394761

eBay Product ID (ePID)204082477

Product Key Features

Book TitleReluctant Genius

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorCharlotte Gray

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Rich in detail and measured in pace.... It is not only a fascinating book about an important inventor ... but also a good story about two lives well lived." ( The Globe and Mail )

SynopsisImpeccably researched, and written with Charlotte Gray's unerring eye for personal and historical detail, Reluctant Genius tells the story of a man very different from his public image. Most of us think of Alexander Graham Bell as a white-bearded sage, but the young A lec Bell was a passionate and wild-eyed genius, a man given to fits of brilliance and melancholy. His technologies for photophones, tetrahedrals, flying machines and hydrodomes laid the groundwork for future achievement. And he adored his wife, Mabel, a beautiful, deaf young woman from a blueblood Boston family. Gray goes where no other writer has gone, delving deeply into Bell's personality and into his intense relationship with Mabel, whose background and temperament were a startling contrast to his own. Reluctant Genius takes us on an intimate journey into the golden age of invention and the vibrant life of a man whose work shaped our world.